RPG Knockout Tournament (Rnd 1 voting pg. 5)

Well, this is somewhat based on a combination of LinksOcarina's Fighter Tournament and The_Joker's Showdown.

Here's how it will go:

1. People can nominate 8 people at a time. Those 8 will be in the tournament as long as you can justify their involvement in an RPG or semi-RPG.

2. When the tournament starts, you can vote for who you want. One vote per round, but you can place your votes ahead of time by PM'ing me with who you want to vote for. I will list at the start the match-ups, so you can track the progress of your characters.

3. Only if I recieve more than 64 nominated characters (8 GR members contributing 8 nominations) will the tournament proceed.

Nominations are now CLOSED. Here is a full list of all 128 combatants. I will update as often as I can with up-to-date elimination stats.

aw you took sephiroth, balthier,aya, and auron from my choice. geuss ill go with.
Albel knox (star Ocean till the end of time)come on hes badass.
seifer (FF8)the same goess for him
Genisis(FF DC)next best thing to Sephiroth.
Lloyd(legend of the dragoon)another cool badguy plus he a got a flameing sword lol
do summons count from games? if so i choose
Odin(FF)if not then ill choose someone else.
Vincent(FF7)he still one of my fav FF characters even after DC.
and Tifa(FF7) Tifa always one of my fav party members in FF7.
Dart(Legend of the Dragoon)hes cooler in his divine dragoon form but oh well if i find a pick ill switch it,if you ever played legend of the dragoon you know it was badass.

Eh hate to knock someone elses nomination, but I would suggest that we don't use Gandalf because he is in an RPG based off of a movie series. It would be like nominating Super Heros from Marvel:UA. Anyways:

My choices:
-Kuja (Final Fantasy IX) I actually like him more than Sephiroth. He's very intelligent, deceptive, and he actually has a personality (something every character but Cid and Barrett lack in FF VII).
-Orlandu aka Thunder God Cid (Final Fantasy Tactics) A godsend to your party. Once you get him, you can't take him out. He's amazingly powerful. The most crucial member to any party of any RPG pretty much...
-KOS-MOS (Xenosaga series) 'cause she's pretty much godly...in the FMV movie sequences at least.
-Lulu (Final Fantasy X) She represents everything cool...in a goth way.
-Kefka (Final Fantasy III/VI) Because a lot of people like him. I never relly played the game though.
-Riku (Kingdom Hearts) He's cooler than Sora and just as good!
-Sora (Kingdom Hearts) just because he's the hero.
-Rikku (Final Fantasy X/X-2) I don't really have a reason for her./I've gotten lazy.

Man I was REALLY torn between Vossler and Reddas, but only wanted to nominate one because FFXII isn't the most widely known game of the series. I chose Reddas because I liked his heroic death, and of course he was at one point a Judge!